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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: quote removal issues within character class
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On Nov 09 2019, L A Walsh wrote:

> On 2019/11/09 04:49, Robert Elz wrote:
>> There's also
>>
>> 	The special characters '.', '*', '[', and '\\'
>> 	(<period>, <asterisk>, <left-square-bracket>, and <backslash>,
>> 	respectively) shall lose their special meaning within a bracket
>> 	expression.
>>   
> ----
> Is this really what the standard says, because '\\' is not a character, but
> 2 characters.  They could use "\\" but if a backslash is between single
> quotes, it loses its special meaning.

This is C notation, not shell notation.

Andreas.

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